Khaled Abu Saqqar

Khaled Abu Saqqar (died 5 April 2016) was a Free Syrian Army and later al-Nusra Front leader and a former al-Farouq Brigade member who is most famous for a 2013 video of him eating the heart of a Syrian Arab Army soldier during the Syrian Civil War. He was killed in action in April 2016.

Biography
Khaled Abu Saqqar was born in Syria to a Sunni Muslim family, and he joined the Free Syrian Army's al-Farouq Brigade at the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011. He was hailed as a hero for fighting against the Shabiha militia loyal to Bashar al-Assad's government during the war, and in 2013 he appeared in a video that showed him eating the heart of an Alawite soldier in the Syrian Arab Army during the fighting in Homs Governorate. Saqqar went on to join the al-Nusra Front later in the war, and on 5 April 2016 he was killed in a Syrian Arab Army ambush on his convoy as it headed towards Jabal al-Akrad ("Kurdish Mountains") in Latakia Governorate. Despite his defection to al-Nusra, he was still hailed as a hero by the FSA.